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Last year, TikTok helped woo sellers to TikTok Shop by footing the bill for incredible discounts on its new e-commerce service. These encouraged merchants to sell items at rock-bottom prices, which led to a deluge of sales. But this year, TikTok is taking a different tack to grow its e-commerce sales by encouraging more brands to go live—a lot.That’s one of the takeaways from a story Ann Gehan and I published on Wednesday about TikTok Shop and its deeper push into livestream shopping, an effort that’s becom
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Some Meta employees on Blind were sympathetic. Others suggested the policy violators chose their own fate by misusing the Grubhub meal credits. Read more ›
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YouTube is testing a revamp of its Premium Lite subscription tier. User screenshots made the rounds on social media this week, and today a Google rep later confirmed to multiple other outlets that the plan is being tested in Australia, Germany and Thailand. This new version would have "limited ads," which the fine print describes as most videos being ad-free, "but you may see video ads on music content and... Read more ›
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Apple is working behind the scenes to get ready to add new Apple Intelligence features to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15. We'll get the first set in the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS 15.1 updates, but Apple is preparing for the next batch, too. In backend code, MacRumors has discovered new references to Siri's ChatGPT integration as Apple prepares to implement ChatGPT support. Siri code mentions options... Read more ›
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Almost two years after its was confirmed to be in the works, Amazon's live-action TV adaptation of Sony Santa Monica's God of War series is reportedly getting a "do-over" after the companies involved decided on a "different creative direction". Read more Read more ›
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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is going to need some new business cards printed up because it’s dropping the “coin” in its name. The OpenAI CEO’s startup is shifting from cryptocurrency to focus more on its identification technology and it just unveiled a new version of its signature gadget. Bloomberg reported that the new company called (wait for it) World will focus its eye scanning tech on confirming identities, something that could... Read more ›
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Eric Counsel Jr. is accused of helping to hack the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account in order to post false information about Bitcoin. Read more ›
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Billionaire Mark Cuban will appear on Kamala Harris' behalf in three swing states by the end of the week. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift is self-publishing a book, cutting traditional publishers out of the deal. This is not the first time she has circumvented an industry. Read more ›
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The Meta perk is intended for employees who work late at the office and may need to order food to eat. Read more ›
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The video of Optimus is sped up 2 times, 8 times, and even 10 times faster at various points. Read more ›
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Bloober has announced its next game will be an original sci-fi survival horror called Cronos: The New Dawn. Read more Read more ›
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The price of the world's largest SSD has skyrocketed likely due to demand for AI servers Read more ›
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TikTok has begun connecting manufacturers directly with creators to make custom goods to sell on Shop, as the company looks to drive up sales. Read more ›
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As Apple celebrates the 10th anniversary of Apple Pay, Apple Pay and Apple Wallet chief Jennifer Bailey today did an interview with The Points Guy, providing some insight into current and future Apple Pay-related features like car key and ID integration in the Wallet app. Apple Pay wasn't an immediate hit with consumers, but Bailey said that Apple "worked really hard" to establish a "great customer experience" over the last... Read more ›
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In June, Apple discontinued its "buy now, pay later" service called Apple Pay Later, which let qualifying customers split a purchase made with Apple Pay into four equal payments over six weeks, with no interest or fees. Instead, Apple said customers in the U.S. would be able to apply for loans from select other "buy now, pay later" services when they check out with Apple Pay on the web and... Read more ›
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Netflix's third-quarter earnings beat estimates, with new subscribers growing again as the company continued to fight password-sharing. Read more ›
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Donald Trump is fighting to delay yet another release of more of prosecutors' evidence in the 2020 election interference case against him. Read more ›
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If you're a teacher, nurse, first responder or other public servant, your student loans could soon be forgiven. Read more ›
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Researcher feeds screen recordings into Gemini to extract accurate information with ease. Read more ›
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Image: Activision Activision says it has “disabled a workaround to a detection system” in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone that led to legitimate players getting banned by the Ricochet anti-cheat system. The company says the problem “impacted a small number of legitimate player accounts,” and all accounts affected were restored. However, zebleer, who runs the Phantom Overlay store selling cheats, claims the problem is much bigger than... Read more ›
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Score one for OpenAI? Before we get to today’s column, we should flag Aaron’s scoop yesterday about OpenAI hiring one of Microsoft’s most prominent artificial intelligence researchers. It must be a welcome relief for OpenAI to be on the receiving end of such a move for a change.Onto today’s issue…Between headlines about OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar financing and executive drama, you might have forgotten it’s also reworking its convoluted structure so that... Read more ›
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You certainly can’t accuse Wall Street of being taken in by a glitzy presentation, at least not this week. Elon Musk’s big robotaxi reveal on Thursday night went down like a lead balloon with investors today. Tesla shares fell 9%, while shares of Uber, whose business is theoretically at risk from a Tesla robotaxi, rose nearly 11% to $86. That puts Uber stock a few dollars above where it was... Read more ›
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When Andrew Gounardes needed help rallying support for two social media bills he’d introduced in the New York State Senate earlier this year, he knew who to call: Mothers Against Media Addiction. The New York-based nonprofit parental advocacy group had caught Gounardes’ attention even before it officially launched in March, thanks to its founder, Julie Scelfo, whom a colleague had introduced Gounardes to earlier that year. “It was a match... Read more ›
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Crusoe, a data center company focused on artificial intelligence, is in advanced discussions to raise several billion dollars in debt financing for a data center it is building for OpenAI in Texas, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Crusoe, which previously focused ... Read more ›
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The artificial intelligence race is lifting previously unknown data center startups that say they can move faster than bigger developers. The latest is Crusoe Energy, which on Tuesday announced a deal to borrow $3.4 billion to develop a data center that could eventually become one of the largest in the world. Oracle, a cloud provider, will lease the site and rent servers with Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI, The... Read more ›
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Last year, TikTok helped woo sellers to TikTok Shop by footing the bill for incredible discounts on its new e-commerce service. These encouraged merchants to sell items at rock-bottom prices, which led to a deluge of sales. But this year, TikTok is taking a different tack to grow its e-commerce sales by encouraging more brands to go live—a lot.That’s one of the takeaways from a story Ann Gehan and I... Read more ›
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When it comes to recruiting and retaining artificial intelligence researchers, OpenAI has faced tougher competition this year from old and new rivals. Now it’s facing pressure from a very recent former employee: ex-chief technology officer Mira Murati.Murati, whose last day was Friday, October 4 and now is as an advisor to the company, has been speaking with OpenAI employees about potentially joining her next venture, though she hasn’t disclosed exactly... Read more ›
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Amazon announced three nuclear energy projects on Wednesday, including two deals with utilities and an investment in a nuclear developer, marking the latest example of a big tech company backing clean energy projects to power data centers. Amazon has signed agreements with utilities in Virginia ... Read more ›
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Could a breakup be good for Google? The gang had a lot to debate and discuss. Plus, Jessica recaps The Information's WTF. Enjoy! Apple Spotify YouTube Read more ›
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Nvidia and OpenAI may get the headlines, but their microprocessors and artificial intelligence wouldn’t be possible without the good people of Taiwan—specifically, more than 70,000 employees and leaders of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.A few years ago, my colleague Wayne took readers into the deep relationship between TSMC and Apple, which is still its top customer, and he later reported in detail how TSMC is even more secretive than Apple, which... Read more ›
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